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MANIMAL Sponsors MIRC and Wounded Summits

The Maine Indoor Rowing Championships (MIRC) on February 4, 2011 in Portland, Maine had a great turn out!  The event was presented by CrossFit Casco Bay and the Portland Community Rowing Association, and Manimal was proud to be a sponsor .

Here's a little peek at the competition.

Manimal is also extremely honored to be a sponsor of the Wounded Summits project.  Founder, Cassidy Mark Drake, is a former combat vet and knows what it means to deal with the PTSD that is all too common among vets.  Mark is organizing outings for surfing and mountain climbing (after some world class instruction) geared at helping vets cope with their PTSD.   Manimal always jumps at the chance to support our troops, and we feel this is a worthy cause, so check it out.

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Profile: Erin Zwier-Tieder

Height: 5'8"
Weight: 63kg
Age: 29

Most Recent Stats:

2011 Washington Open: 63kg Weight Class (138.6lbs)
Snatch: 66kg (145.2lbs)
Clean and Jerk: 79kg (173.8lbs)
Total: 145kg (319lbs)

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What's Next? Wrist Wraps, Hats, Fat Bars, Sand Bags Oh My!

Find out what we're releasing in the future, what we're working on right now and how your brand is coming to life from the same hard work you put into your training. Read more

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WOD Music: "Fight Gone Bad" by Scott Dawson

Scott Dawson has been a friend of mine since he showed up at the box and started turning our athletes inside out at the age of 40 a couple years ago. We later found out he was a part of Naval Special Warfare and had served as a Air Rescue Swimmer for many years prior. (That's why he doesn't get tired!) Currently he's a Naval Special Warfare recruiter. You can find him on the fields or at the pool putting recruits through hours of training. He's preparing them for selections ahead. Navy SEAL, EOD, Air Rescue Swimmer and Navy Diver pipelines. He's a humble guy and a real role model for the youth and everyone around him.

Little did we know, when he's not at the box or out on the road working he's at home in his man cave cooking up music tracks with digital equipment and instruments he plays himself. He's always rocking Led Zeppelin at the box during his class and when he's hit a wall during a WOD he looks over and gives the Zeppelin que and we know what to do. Recently he had this idea to make tracks specifically for CrossFit WODs. He made two tracks based around Fight Gone Bad with built in time queues for each round and station switch. One is a remix of Led Zeppelin songs and the other is his own instrumental mix. This is his first debut and we're psyched he came to us with it.

Feel free to download it and use it for the Fight Gone Bad coming up this week. Or play it whenever you do the workout Fight Gone Bad. May this track bring you more reps and adrenaline.

Fight Gone Bad By Scott Dawson - Click to play

Download the mp3 here (right click and Save Link As).

Fight Gone Bad (Zeppelin Mix) By Scott Dawson - Click to play

Download the mp3 here (right click and Save Link As).

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MANIMAL Designs Coach Burgener Charity Shirt

Coach Mike Burgener is the owner of Mike's Gym, a USAW Regional Training Center & a Crossfit Affiliate. As a USAW Senior Instructor & CrossFit Olympic Weightlifitng Instructor he travels both nationally and internationally training youth, professional athletes and those aspiring to be the best in the Weightlifting world. He is a former Junior World Team (1996-2004) and Senior World Team Coach (2005). He also shares his passion with youth as the Strength & Conditioning Coach at Rancho Buena Vista High School in Vista, California.

When you get past his impressive experience you see a veteran of the Marine Corps, a mentor who gives free advice on weightlifting videos posted by strangers on facebook, a father of two accomplished weightlifters, a man who enjoyes riding his motorcycle cross country and last but not least a kind, giving professional who always looks for a way to give back with his work.

Coach B approached us with an idea for a shirt. He wanted the shirt to be patriotic, exciting, authentic in design and a quality above the rest. He also made sure to let us know the shirt was to benefit Steve's Club.

Our reaction was, let's get started! We couldn't have been offered with a better opportunity: Support a good cause and collaborate with one of the best Weightlifting Coaches and role model Americans around. This is what we're all about.

Steve's Club is a non profit organization that provides the youth of Camden, NJ with coaching, community, support and guidance. Paleo Kits, which is still one of the best ways to travel and eat Paleo, is owned by Steve and made this organization possible to begin with. (On a side note, one of the owners of Manimal was born in an urban New Jersey town.) This quote sums it up well:

"50 years from now it will not matter what kind of car you drove, what kind of house you lived in, how much you had in your bank account, or what your clothes looked like. But the world may be a little better because you were important in the life of a child."

Purchase your shirt HERE.

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MANIMAL Sponsors 31 Heroes Fundraiser

31 Americans including one working dog were killed on August 5th, 2011 when a transport helicopter was shot down near Kabul.

On September 3rd, 2011 CrossFitters and athletes of all kinds will join together in a workout across the nation to honor the heroes killed in action and to raise money for the families affected by this tragic loss.

Manimal is proud to be a sponsor of the 31Heroes fundraiser in support of those troops and their families. We support this cause and it's message 100%.

Register to participate in the event or donate to help the families of the operators who passed at 31Heroes.com. 100% of all donations will go directly to those affected. Let the families of those who gave their lives to serve this country know that we respect and appreciate the great sacrifice that they made for us and our beautiful country.

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MANIMAL Donates Shirts to Fueling the Fire

Our troops are the protectors of our freedom, our way of life, and our great country. We LOVE our troops and want them to enjoy some of the things we get to enjoy Stateside.

That's why we are proud to be part of the Fueling the Fire project. Paleo Magazine has put together numerous care packages to go to our troops overseas, and Manimal has donated over 100 shirts to be included in the packages, along with other paleo goodies and copies of Paleo Magazine.

If you'd like to show your support, you can write letters,
cards, or donate at Fuelingthefire.org

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Wanting to Win

Occasionally I sit down on a rower, facing a rubber floor filled with athletes, and see something that makes me envious. I see someone going at a workout in such a way that almost looks painful, but they won’t stop. There’s a motivation there that only that person knows and it carries them to another place where the pain doesn’t mean shit and the finish line is all that matters. They could be blind. They hear and see nothing. If they do hear anything it’s the voice in their head telling them to keep going.

People feed on this type of energy, especially in a CrossFit gym. They yell and taunt the athlete with no real understanding of the pain and mental battles they’re pushing through in that moment. The spectators are in-sensitive as to whether or not something has happened to that person in the past or that very day that is driving them to fight out of anger, hatred or other personal emotions.

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Profile: Steve Rodriquez

• Body Weight: 155lbs
• Height 5’7”
• Age: 32
• C&J: 205
• Squat Snatch: 155lbs
• Deadlift: 400lbs
• Handstand Pushups: 25 Unbroken (no kipping)
• Favorite WOD: Diane

I’ve been training all my life, or at least I thought I was until I started Crossfit 2 years ago. Found out I wasn’t even close to what my full potential could be on power output. Pushing your body to the ultimate limit is what Crossfit does and no other training I’ve done has ever made me feel this way.

I train with the best at Crossfit Fort Vancouver. Without this place of comfort myself and my family would be lost. I’ve not only achieved great health and fitness here, but have made lifelong friends and have gotten stronger in life because of where I train. Read more

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The Beast Inside of You

We know who you are. Sitting at work all day, unable to focus on the customer you're helping, or mabye it's the guy in the suit giving a 90 minute Power Point presentation sounding like one of the adults from Charlie Brown. A constant whisper calling from the shadows of your mind...always pulling your thoughts back to the workout you're going to annihilate after you clock out and dig in at the gym. Your favorite dungeon of weights, ropes, and pullup bars where you break down your mental and physical barriers, where you battle to become the physical specimen that you long to be.

We honor you. You do things that "normal" people wouldn't even consider, and they think you're bat crap crazy for doing it. Crazy? Maybe, but as far as we're concerned crazy beats the hell out of complacent. Life isn't worth living if you stop working to better yourself.

We are you, and you are us.

What's that? You say this isn't you? Bullshit. This IS you...it's inside you, inside all of us. It's time for you to to open the cage and unleash the beast. Take a long, hard look at your goals, your PRs, and your weaknesses...then give your fears and doubts a good hard kick in the sack and do what your mind is telling you is too hard. Make it clear that your heart and determination are the players in this game, and the word "can't" doesn't even get to watch. It's time to blur the line between "crazy" and reality, then you'll learn what you are truly capable of.